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with my steno she would prepare Adai a variety of pancake made
of toor dal or suji rava uppuma in a quantity sufficient to both of
us. Whenever friends or subordinates visited us in our house she
made it a point to offer them coffee hot and tasty. Our life in the
house on Lakshmipuram not far from Ganesh Theatre was an
extended honeymoon!.My wife used to enjoy visits to Devaraja
market and do vegetable shopping. Our visits were mainly
managed without the help of two wheeler. Walking on Sayyaji
Rao road,Ramavilasa Road and on the road leading from Railway

station to Crawford circle used to give us immense pleasure what
with fragrance from Margosa trees. Though childless we managed
to keep away sadness mainly on account of the next door child of
3 years who often preferred to sleep on our mattress in our house.

When visits were due to Gundalpet or Melkote I never missed the
opportunity to take my wife with me to those places. We used to
carry eatables and even food to last the period of stay in the guest
house. I took advantage of the trip to Gundalpet to drive the
scooter up the Nilgiri ghat and reach Ootacamund and make a
surprise visit to my co-brother’s quarters belonging to Hindustan
Photo Films where he was employed as a Manager Production. We
along with my wife’s sister’s husband and their children toured
round Ooty visit Botanical park,Pycara tunnel, Dodda betta,
etc.One of the visits worth remembering was our journey by bus to

B.R.Hills which enthralled us with the verdant beauty of the
wooded hills and rare sighting of the bison!

We enjoyed our visit to Melkote temple where we offered worship
to Selvapaillai Perumal and also had a breathtaking view of the
vast sheet of water in the Thondanur lake a living proof of Swami
Ramanujar’s genius that not only gave great momentum to the
spread of Bhakti movement but also visualize and design and
construct the great lake which waters thousands of acres of paddy
cultivation.

Soon after my marriage I purchased Vespa scooter and on a few
occasions I used to take my wife on the pillion to visit and carry
out inspection of post offices while she used to wait in the quarters
of postmaster. Once when I combined a visit to a rural post office

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